Week 9

Hello parents,

Welcome to week 9. Can you believe the term is almost coming to an end. Katherine and I will now be sending out weekly update emails that will also be updated onto the blog to help all of you know what our teaching focus will be.

Letter of the week: Hh

Word of the week: in

Reading: the children are learning how to finger point under each word and recognise high frequency words – look, I, a , is, the, me, my, we. We will be practising reading, writing and spelling these in class this week. It would be very helpful if you practised this at home too. The children are also looking out for letters that they know in the text eg – a,n,m.

For the more confident readers their focus is to stretch out the letters in unknown words and put them back together to identify the word, look out for punctuation and make their voice sound nice and smooth while they are talking.

Writing: all the children are using chalk boards and learning the cassy shapes. I have attached the cassey shapes again for your home use. Please take photos of the children would love to see how they are going at home. We are also practising how to correctly write our name. Keep up the name practise at home!

 

Maths: this week the children are learning how to count forward and backwards to 20 and read and recognise numbers to 20.

 

What we need in class

1.   Plastic containers

2.  More play dough – if you are looking for an activity to do with your child we would love some new playdough

3.  Magazines

4.  Old puzzles that are no longer used at home!

 

Reminders

·        Please keep April the 16^th free for the Ara Teina True colours performance.

·        Gold coin donation for parents who haven’t had the time to bring in ribbon and tulle for performance.

·        Parent teacher discussions 14^th and 16^th of April. More information to come on how to book.

·        I will be at a course on Tuesday so a relief teacher will be in the room with Katherine.

Dana and Katherine.